Current BiologyFor over 70 million years, during the Paleozoic, the placoderms (Greek for 'plated skin'), an extinct group of armoured fishes, were the most abundant and diverse vertebrates on our planet.
John A. Long, Katherine Trinajstić
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Paleontology: There are more placoderms in the sea
Current Biology, 2021 Fossil fish from the Silurian of China continue to surprise. These so-called 'maxillate placoderms', including the newly described Bianchengichthys micros, show a range of anatomical features that question our picture of vertebrate evolution and ...
Zerina Johanson
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A large Middle Devonian eubrachythoracid ‘placoderm’ (Arthrodira) jaw from northern Gondwana [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2021 For the understanding of the evolution of jawed vertebrates and jaws and teeth, ‘placoderms’ are crucial as they exhibit an impressive morphological disparity associated with the early stages of this process.
Melina Jobbins +3 more
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Placoderms from the Lower Devonian “placoderm sandstone” of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland with biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017 The siliciclastic sequence of the Lower Devonian of the southern part of the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland is renown for abundant vertebrate fossils, including ostracoderm, sarcopterygian, acanthodian, chondrichthyan, and placoderm remains. Study of the
Piotr Szrek, Vincent Dupret
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Was the Devonian placoderm Titanichthys a suspension feeder? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Large nektonic suspension feeders have evolved multiple times. The apparent trend among apex predators for some evolving into feeding on small zooplankton is of interest for understanding the associated shifts in anatomy and behaviour, while the spatial ...
Samuel J. Coatham +3 more
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Reply to ‘placoderms and the evolutionary origin of teeth’: Burrow et al. (2016) [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2016 Establishing the evolutionary origins of teeth is difficult not least since researchers disagree on whether or not the earliest jawed vertebrates, the extinct placoderms, possessed teeth.
Martin Rücklin, P. Donoghue
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Fossil evidence for a pharyngeal origin of the vertebrate pectoral girdle. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 The origin of vertebrate paired appendages is one of the most investigated and debated examples of evolutionary novelty. Paired appendages are widely considered key innovations that allowed new opportunities for controlled swimming and gill ventilation ...
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Taphonomy of the vertebrate bone beds from the Klūnas fossil site, Upper Devonian Tērvete Formation of Latvia [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012 Combined sedimentological and taphonomical study of the siliciclastic sequence of the Tērvete Formation in the stratotypical area was aimed at revealing the formation of the three oryctocoenoses discovered and related structural and textural features of ...
Jeļena Vasiļkova +3 more
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A new selenosteid placoderm from the Late Devonian of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) with preserved body outline and its ecomorphology [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Placoderms are an extinct group of early jawed vertebrates that play a key role in understanding the evolution of the gnathostome body plan, including the origin of novelties such as jaws, teeth, and pelvic fins.
Melina Jobbins +5 more
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Reappraisal of the Silurian placoderm Silurolepis and insights into the dermal neck joint evolution [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Silurolepis platydorsalis, a Silurian jawed vertebrate originally identified as an antiarch, is here redescribed as a maxillate placoderm close to Qilinyu and is anteroposteriorly reversed as opposed to the original description.
You-an Zhu, Jing Lu, Min Zhu
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